TRULLA
TRULLA
1. A ladle for stirring and skimming (=
τορύνη), in which sense
trua also
is used.
2.
Trulla vinaria, a sort of ladle used like a
cyathus for taking wine from the crater (Varro,
L. L. 5.118;
Cic. Ver. 4.27, 62; Hor.
Sat. 2.3, 144). It
probably differed from the cyathus in having a shallower and flatter bowl at
the end of its long handle (
manubrium). The
material was various, wooden or copper (
Cat. Agr.
13), silver (Cic.
l.c. or
murrhina (
Plin. Nat. 37.20).
The passage in
Mart. 9.37 is altogether
incompatible with the notion (for which there is no authority) that the
trulla had holes like a strainer.
3. A mason's trowel for plastering walls, whence
trullisare (Pallad.
R. R. 1.13; Isid.
Orig. 19.18). This meaning also negatives the idea of its
being perforated.
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